Ezra Roizen

Current

Partner at Ackrell Capital
General Manager at STRATEGYfx

Past

Vice President at Rutberg & Company
Vice President, Business & Product Development at Aircraft Technical Publishers
Co-Founder & CEO at Montclare Technologies, Inc.

Co-Founder & Director of Business Development at Convoy Corporation

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Education

Columbia University - Columbia Business School
University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business
University of California, Davis

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Ezra Roizen’s Summary

Advisor and commenter on emerging ventures, focused on digital media, e-commerce and mobile companies.

My transactional activities are performed as a partner with Ackrell Capital a boutique investment bank.

In addition to financial advisory, I have a research and consulting firm called STRATEGYfx. STRATEGYfx is the venue for my commentary and analysis on emerging businesses.

The primary syndication/publishing partners for this commentary are Vator.tv where I co-host a show and am a contributing editor and AlwaysOn where I'm also a contributing editor, selection committee member for their top 100 lists and a conference emcee.

Ezra Roizen’s Specialties:

Corporate finance, M&A, strategy, monetization, business expansion and optimization.

Ezra Roizen’s Experience

Partner

Ackrell Capital

(Investment Banking industry)

2005 — Present (4 years )

Advisor to digital media, e-commerce and mobile companies in the areas of financing, M&A and strategy.

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General Manager

STRATEGYfx

(Management Consulting industry)

2001 — Present (8 years )

Consultant to digital media and e-commerce companies on monetization, expansion and business optimization.
Vice President

Rutberg & Company

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Investment Banking industry)

2005 — 2007 (2 years )

Advised emerging mobile and digital media companies through financing and M&A transactions.
Vice President, Business & Product Development

Aircraft Technical Publishers

(Non-Profit; Financial Services industry)

2003 — 2005 (2 years )

Played a lead role in the development of the company's business and product strategies.
Co-Founder & CEO

Montclare Technologies, Inc.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1997 — 2001 (4 years )

As CTO, lead the technology strategy during the early phases of the company. Contributed to positioning the company as one of the premier Web development firms in the San Francisco Bay Area. As CEO, lead the company during a period of rapid growth to a peak run-rate of approximately $7M in revenue.
Co-Founder & Director of Business Development

Convoy Corporation

(Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

1994 — 1997 (3 years )

Played lead roles in setting product strategy and establishing the first key partner and customer relationships. Convoy made Software Magazine's 1998 list of the top 500 software companies and led the 1998 middleware market. In 1999 Convoy was acquired by New Era of Networks (NASDAQ: NEON, Acquired by Sybase NYSE: SY in 2001).

Ezra Roizen’s Education

Columbia University - Columbia Business School

MBA ,

Activities and Societies:

Beta Gamma Sigma Honors
Class Academic Co-Representative
University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business

MBA ,

Activities and Societies:

Haas Community Service Fellow
University of California, Davis

BA , Philosophy

Minors in English & History

Activities and Societies:

UC Davis Lacrosse